Roy Halladay’s wife “fought hard” to convince the eight-time all-star to stay out of the cockpit.

The former Blue Jays ace, who tragically died Tuesday afternoon when his plane crashed off the Florida coast, once appeared in a promotional video for ICON, the maker of the aircraft Halladay was piloting.

“She’s fought me the whole way,” Halladay says in the video while standing next to his wife, Brandy.

She replies: “Hard. I fought hard. I was very against it.”

But then Brandy explains how a single flying experience convinced her otherwise.

“I went down with him one day to the training centre in St. Pete and they said, ‘Oh, you want to go up for a ride?’

“I got up in that plane. I looked over and said, ‘OK, I get it. This is amazing.’”

Later in the clip, Halladay talks about how “excited” he is to have the No. 01 ICON A5 out of the 100 founder’s edition.

“That is pretty cool,” he says. “To think that I get to take that home is pretty surreal.”

The sheriff’s department in Pasco County, Fla., confirmed Halladay’s body was found at the scene of the crash.

At a news conference, Sheriff Chris Nocco — who knew Halladay — said the ICON A5 went down about noon Eastern Time near Holiday, Fla.

“He was probably one of the most humble human beings you’ll ever meet,” Nocco said. “For somebody who won two Cy Youngs, as I said one of the greatest pitchers in baseball, he would walk in the room as if he was just anybody. It didn’t matter who he met, he was kind and generous.”

The sheriff’s office marine unit responded to the downed plane and found Halladay’s body.

No survivors were found. Police said they couldn’t confirm if there were additional passengers on the plane or say where it was headed.

Halladay was an amateur pilot who often posted on social media about small planes. ICON aircraft had posted a video with Halladay trying out a new plane.

In May, a similar ICON AF crashed in California, killing two of the company’s engineers.